It’s a painful thing to talk about my childhood. I kind of don’t talk about it much. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
Everybody’s life matters. But that’s why we have to say black lives matter, because the highest disproportionality, police brutality, disenfranchisement, education disproportionality in school discipline, curriculum, misrepresentation, all of this. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
I stand on the black side of issues, philosophically, politically, socially, and for me to not check that box, I felt like, would be some sort of betrayal of not only who I am but also the community I affiliate with. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
I was presented as a con and a fraud and a liar. I think some of the treatment was pretty cruel. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
People didn’t seem able to consider that maybe both were true. OK, I was born to white parents, but maybe I had an authentic black identity. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
Blackness better defines who I am philosophically and socially than whiteness does. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
About five years old, I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon and, you know, the black curly hair. That’s how I was portraying myself. Rachel Dolezal Read Quote
